Every week, a group of scientists publish a study that arrives at aker-azy,headline-grabbing conclusion. Unfortunately, it's easy to just report on these studies as if they were handed down as truth by St. Albert, the patron saint of scientists. That's why we should take this Canadian study, published inComputers in Human Behavior, with an obligatory pinch of salt.

Screw meals in pill form. We'll know we're living in the future when our furniture can assemble itself at will. It's something thatMITand othersare working on, and the most recent work from the university'sself-assembly labshows how far the process has come.

Being forced to wait for several hours for aday one update to downloadtakes the shine off buying a new game. What began as a way for developers to make some last-minute fixes has now enabled them to shiphalf-finished products and fix them long after purchase.

The Arctic Circle is alot busierthan itused to be, a state of affairs that's keepingDARPAawake at night. America'smad science divisiondoesn't like not knowing what's going on up there, and so is asking the public for help.

When we placedSamsung's Galaxy Tab 3 10.1in front ofJoseph Volpe, it was all he could do not to roll his eyes. Rather than any headline features, the slate was merely an improvement on the second generation, just with a newer version of Android and, interestingly enough, an Intel chip. When he was done with it, Volpe remained as underwhelmed as when he'd began.

Samsung and HTC's new smartphones may command the bulk of the attention at this year's Mobile World Congress but the show isn't just about new handsets.Samsungand Korean mobile carrier SK Telecom will use the show to demonstrate anew mobile datasystem that'll reach of speeds up to7.5Gbps.

If you were worried thatHyperloopwas nothing more than a fantasy, you might be happy to learn that some companies are taking the idea very seriously.Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, one of the companies inspired by Elon Musk's idea of making people travel in tubes, has signed a deal to build a five mile test facility in California.